Saw the film last night, was pleasantly surprised in moments since I left my brain at the door.
I thought the general atmosphere was fairly well done. Take some horror elements from Alien, the hunting down one by one and gore aspects of Predator and maybe sprinke a little bit of decayed cheese from Resident Evil with semi-intelligble sci-fi babble and you're about half way there.
I was a bit disappointed with the lack of referrences to the games however. I mean respect where its deserved - there'd be no film without the games. We got Dr Carmack, yet where was Dr Romero? [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Some beefed up industrial remixes of the original two games themes would have gone down a treat, rather than an unrelated soundtrack which at times sounded a bit weak and thin. The E1M8 theme in particular would have been beautiful for the credits music!
Although the first person sequences were effective, I wasn't much keen on the ending.
The final fight was a bit overly machoistic and silly really. I think the CyberDemon or the SpiderDemon would have been far more appropriate rather than have the flimsy plot device of making the Sarge turn psychotic just so we can have the patronising sense of justification in seeing him die. I saw it coming a mile away.
However, Sarge's bewildered line of "Awwww, s*it", when taking hold of the BFG give me the snickers.
Overall, a half-decent effort. I love the games dearly - own them all bar the third one.
but I wasn't expecting that much with this. I can honestly say I was entertained on some level.
Dare I say sequel? Well, if there is, I want more misanthropic oblivion with a closer relationship to the games.
